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George Finlay (21 December 1799 – 26 January 1875) was a Scottish historian. ... A History of Greece (From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 ...
Finlay, George. History of the Greek Revolution. Blackwood and Sons, 1861 (Harvard University). Phillips, Walter Alison. The War of Greek Independence, 1821 to 1833. Smith, Elder and Company, 1897 (University of Michigan). Makriyannis, Memoirs, IX Archived October 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
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In Rhodes, one of the worst affected Greek islands, more than 20,000 tourists and locals fled from the blaze in “the biggest evacuation” in Greece’s history. Maryam Zakir-Hussain reports:
The Greek Army under Demetrios Ypsilantis which for the first time trained to fight as a regular European army rather than as guerilla bands, awaited Aslan Bey's forces at Petra, a town at a narrow passage in Boeotia between Livadeia and Thebes in order to dispute their passage. On September 12, 1829 the two armies engaged in battle.
Finlay, George (1877). A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864, Vol. V: Greece under Othoman and Venetian Domination A.D. 1453–1821. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Paton, James Morton (1940). The Venetians in Athens, 1687–1688, from the Istoria of Cristoforo Ivanovich. Gennadeion Monographs I ...
Greek historian Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815–1891) stated that the Souliotes were "a mixture of Greeks and Hellenized Albanians" while "the Albanian tribe fortified the most noble the combatitive spirit of the Greek, and the Greek inspired in the Albanian the most noble sentiments of love of one's country, love of learning and the rule ...
The Greek authorities are investigating whether wildfires that threatened to engulf Athens were sparked by a single arsonist.. Civil protection minister Vassilis Kikilias said officials verified ...